Planning Beats Panic: Real Estate Choices That Protect Families

Ready for a real estate conversation that feels more like a life plan than a sales pitch? We sit with broker Paul Fritz to explore how SRES expertise turns fear and guesswork into clarity for seniors and families. From aging in place to selecting the right community, Paul lays out practical steps that reduce stress, protect budgets, and honor memories.

We walk through the full decision map: home modifications that buy time, technology that supports safety, and the spectrum of options including 55-plus, independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing. Paul shares simple but powerful methods for handling heirlooms and household items with grace, and why reframing “downsizing” as “rightsizing” helps everyone focus on fit rather than loss. He also explains how to identify the family “rock,” keep emotions respected, and move at a human pace without derailing financial goals.

Then we tackle divorce real estate head-on. Paul breaks down where decrees go wrong, how missed refinance deadlines trap the out-spouse on a mortgage, and why aligning title, deed, and financing from day one avoids expensive delays. He even teaches a bar-accredited CLE for attorneys to write decrees with the end in mind. Finally, we spotlight Paul’s Senior Living NTX video series, which tours modern communities and services so families can see—really see—the difference amenities and culture make.

If you care about aging with dignity, avoiding legal landmines, and giving your family a better roadmap, this conversation is your starting point. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review telling us the next question you want answered.

Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_00 0:06

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SPEAKER_04 0:57

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SPEAKER_03 1:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

Mr. Paul Fritz. How are you doing this morning? First and foremost.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Doing fantastic. Thank y'all so much for having me. I'm excited to get started.

Why Specialize In Senior Real Estate

SPEAKER_04 1:30

Wonderful. So we won't just beat around the bush. So just first tell our audience who you are and what you do.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

Okay. So I am Paul Fritz. I am the real estate broker for Fritz Realty Group. We service the majority of North Texas and we specialize in seniors, divorce, and probate real estate.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

No wonderful. So you build a uh strong reputation of serving seniors in real estate. What inspired you to specialize in this area?

SPEAKER_02 1:55

So Inspire Me specialize seniors specifically. I've always had a heart for teaching, for helping people, for loving and serving the community. And whenever I made the switch from commercial real estate to residential real estate, I found that they're a historically underserved community. It takes a little bit more uh know-how and a little more empathy, a little more love and compassion uh to serve them. So I just noticed they were underserved. So I started to seek out what education can I get, what experience can I get? Um, who can I work with to learn more how to serve them? And it just kind of snowballed from there.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

So awesome. So now as you're search serving seniors, um I'm like you said, you saw a gap, you wanted to to help them out. So what was something specific, like a certification or anything that you got to really make sure, hey, I can help seniors in this way?

SRES Certification And Why It Matters

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Okay. So the first thing I started to do was look online like what's out there, and there's not a whole lot, right? But the National Association of Realtors has a program called the SRES or Senior Real Estate Specialist. Okay. Um so I went through that program, which is extra education, um, experience requirements, things like that, to really know how to serve that community.

SPEAKER_04 3:16

And so why is it important for seniors to work with uh people who are S R E S certified?

Aging In Place Vs Moving Options

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Okay, so I would say the biggest reason is the extra training and experience. Um, in a traditional or normal real estate transaction, um, there's going to be they're buying or selling a home, they're going to the next step, they've kind of got in mind why am I buying? Why am I selling? When you get to uh the senior, there are so many different options out there, whether it's going to be an independent living community, assisted living community, maybe memory care, skilled nursing, something like that. But there's also like over 55 communities, condos. Right. Um, and when the senior decides to move, sometimes that's like a two-year process, right? So you got to be able to come in in the beginning. And and let me back up a little bit. What we like to do in the beginning is how can we help the senior age in place? Right. Okay. Um, is there there's technology we can use? Are there things we can do at the house, you know, like maybe some ADA compliance to help them stay in the home longer? Because they've usually accumulated a lot of stuff that they don't know what they're gonna do with. They're usually downsizing, I hate that term, or right sizing because it's more than just the stuff. Right. Um, it's you know, maintenance on the house, it's upkeep, it's cleaning, things that we don't think about that we take for granted uh that may be the issue. Not necessarily they need to be in a senior community. Right. So it is all of those steps that a SRES agent goes through and knows and experiences, hey, you know, we can do these three things, and you can stay at home another two or three years before you need to make a move. Let's save money, let's plan the future. Right. Um, and it's so overwhelming for the senior that that's really what they need is somebody with some guidance. How do we have home health care, home transportation, and technology, uh, get the adult children involved so that they can kind of see what's coming. Um and it's usually a good indicator of, you know, how do we get affairs in order? You know, a lot of people don't have wills, estate plans, you know, medical directives, so it opens up the door for that conversation. Right. Which all of that stuff other than putting a sign in the yard and selling a house, your normal agent doesn't do. Right.

SPEAKER_04 5:26

And I I love that because I was gonna say it's kind of like I like, yeah, you're a a realtor, but also you're like a concierge, just like just just awesome. Like you just cover all that space.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

So you it sounds like strategic planning. Hey, this is the this is our goal, this is what you want to do, but let me help you walk you through this stuff to get there. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Right. And so not only do you help with through the SRES, right? But you also have a kind of a hand in the in divorce real estate, right? So kind of talk to me a little bit about that.

Beyond Sales: Concierge-Level Support

SPEAKER_02 5:55

So in my journey in residential real estate, I started off life and commercial. I worked for property management company, a developer, uh, but you can really love and serve people, right? You're all about making money, you know, how is Target gonna make the most money building a new store? So I went to the residential side. And in the beginning, God just, you know, my prayer is God put the people in my path that you would have me help, right? I want to love and serve. Um, my motto in life is encourage, enlighten, and empower, right? I want to help you believe no matter what you want to do, it's possible. I can come alongside you and partner to equip you to do that and teach you how to do it. So when I got into residential, I was getting a lot of um disabled veterans. And again, a little bit harder deals. So, but that's who God's put on my heart. That's who he's put in my line. So that's why I'm helping them having to learn the VA process, learn how to file for disability, learn how to get property tax exemptions. And it went from that to I started working with a lot of people going through divorce. So again, I said, okay, how can I help them? And there is no uh National Association of Realtors or big box divorce certification. You kind of got to go outside the industry, you gotta partner with attorneys and things. Um, because what's happening in the divorce aspect, people will get divorced, they don't understand real estate, and the divorce attorney may not always understand real estate. Right. So the divorce decree would say one thing, but when they go to sell the house, we have to do something different.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

Right.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Okay. So I started coming across people just naturally that for example, they got divorced, the attorney put in the divorce decree, the spouse leaving um gets X amount percent, the spouse staying has 60 days to refinance.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Right.

Enter Divorce Real Estate Complexities

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Well, they can't usually know that's all but there's no remedy in the decree. So I had to go learn how to do that, which led me to now we have uh bar accredited uh National Association Bar Association for Attorneys, uh CE course, C L E course that we teach now in Ellis County to teach attorneys, hey, here's the implications down the road for divorce. So let's write the divorce decree up front, knowing the end in mind. That kind of answer your question. So I thought we're on it there.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

No, no, that's good. So how staying on that for a little bit. How difficult is it uh when uh when someone is going through a voice and when it comes to who owns the property or who gets the property, how difficult is that for you?

SPEAKER_02 8:23

So it can vary wildly, right? It depends on how amical the divorce is, in the divorce assets, so we all know that. Um but typically one of the spouses wants to keep the house, right? And if there's children involved, I I think, and all the consensus is if someone can keep the marital home, that's better for the kids. So that's our f again, it's not to sell the house. How do we get the house title correctly, the deed correct, so that the house spouse is what we call them keeping the house? The out spouse, the one leaving, also gets compensated fairly, right? It's interesting dynamic because if the broker is the real estate agent, both of them are my client. Right? So I can't go say, hey, you know, here's what you need to do to get a better deal. It's it's both of them and it's fair. Um so to answer your original question, how difficult is it? It depends. But typically, when you have to sell the house, if the divorce is not final, you need both parties involved, which can be difficult. You need both parties to agree on prices and repairs and all the things that were going to a regular one, you know, when you're still married, you're a team. Right. When you're divorced, you're not. Right. So it is in the divorce decree, if we can upfront make that clean break of who owns what and what the plan is, right? It's a lot easier than if it's not. I've had people get divorced, move away, they come to me two years later. I can't keep the house, it's getting too expensive, maintenance upkeep, and they've they're estranged. Like we can't get the other person, but they're still on the deed.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Right. Right?

Decrees, Refinancing, And Title Traps

SPEAKER_02 9:55

They're still on the mortgage. That's and and I didn't even think about this part to bring up until I just said that the person leaving in divorce, like the one not getting the house, typically both people are on the mortgage. Right. Right. Well, if you don't refinance that house, you can deed the property over to the house spouse, but you're still on the mortgage. So when you try to go buy a house, you usually don't qualify because you got to qualify for two mortgages. Right? So it's down the road. That's what I mean. Like attorneys don't understand, you know, mortgage finance. That's not their job. That's nothing. Right. Right. So I love that's that's interesting.

SPEAKER_04 10:30

It is. And I think also, too, just this is the reason for conversations like this, because a lot of people don't know about that. I mean, you just think about, oh, I have a realtor. You don't know everything that you could have to want to make my next move the easiest move if I'm a senior or if I'm divorcing, how can I make this uh actually work and work for both both parties, but also for myself in the future when I'm looking at passing stuff down to my kids or little things like that. So I love that chapter.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Absolutely. So so and when you say in passing things down to generation, so what are some of the most common concerns uh that seniors face when selling their homes? And how do you assist them with that?

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Okay, so the biggest concern when it comes back to seniors is if they're just simply overwhelmed. They don't know where to start, they don't know what their next move is gonna look like. So it's a consultation. I would get myself more of a consultant than a salesperson, right? I'm gonna come in and say, okay, what are your goals? If the goal for the senior is to age in place, if it's to retrofit the house with some things we can do, technology, if their goal is lower maintenance, maybe we need something like uh a condo or an over 55 community where they're not responsible for the exterior. If the uh goal is health care, then maybe it's an independent living, assisted living, or skilled nursing. The the biggest hurdle to go back to answer question is they're overwhelmed because they don't know their options. I guess that's the best way to say it. Um so it's a consultation to help them understand their options. Everybody has this idea, oh, I gotta go live at the old folks' home or something like that, and nobody wants that. Well, whenever you can educate them, go take them to some of these communities, show them what's available, it takes that burden off. So now we're just okay, what do we do with the stuff? You know, we help walk through. Well, you need to have a meeting with any kids. Let's go back to your point of who gets what, right? Let's have a big dinner. Everybody can kind of, you know, there's tricks. You can put stickers on the back of furniture, okay,'s and antiques, put names on it. I always tell the seniors, and this one I love, and I got this from one of my teachers in this in the SRES class, give the stuff to your kids and your family while you're still with them. Right. Enjoy that process and them getting to get it, receive it, and enjoy it while you're still there. Um so we walk them through that. And then the estate sales and the garage sales and the donating stuff, and there's so much that goes into it. Pets, right? And you they can't take their McCall parrot to the senior live in. Yeah. What do you do? Well, you gotta have connection with the SPCA, you gotta have a connection with different uh animal groups that have places to re-home animals, exotic animals. Um there's just so much that goes into it, it's just simply being overwhelmed. And somebody who's been through that process a lot, they can say, okay, here's here's the immediate next step. Don't worry about the rest. And this is gonna be a two-year journey, a six-month journey, or we're here for you.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

So so when you like you say, it's overwhelming, right? And then the the family and their support can be get emotional and overwhelmed by this one. So going into that, how do you guide the families through the emotional aspects of downsizing or uh transitioning a level to a senior community?

Common Senior Concerns And Options

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Um so it is empathy, it is love, it is patience, it is our core mission at Fridge Realtors Group is to love and serve. We love and serve our agents, our communities, and our clients. So it is that level of service. Sometimes it is just talking through almost like a counselor that that they're heard and that they're valued, right? So that's step number one is empathy. Number two is education. And that goes back to I'm just an educator by heart. So I feel like when you can educate people, yes, there's still gonna be emotional, and you got to give them a minute, right? They're leaving a home, they may have lived there for 20, 40, 60 years, right? That's a hard thing. And to understand, hey, we can talk about that, go take this time, don't make a financial decision right now. Versus somebody who doesn't know that, right, they don't understand why you're not deciding. This is a great offer, why aren't you taking it? It's not gonna get any better. I get it. There's value in things other than money. Right. Let's let's consider that. But if you don't have that experience, you you don't know what to look for, right? Right. Um and then knowing emotionally who in the family is I don't want to say the decision maker, but kind of the rock, the person that everybody leans on.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

So when you say when you say that, does that mean um decision maker, the power of attorney or something like that? But it could that be the rock, or do you say, okay, this is the rock. I know the power of attorney to make the decisions, but I need to speak to this person. That's a very good question.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Um it can be the same person, it can be a different person. Um majority of the time, the person who's power of attorney or the uh trustee or the executor of a will or something like that, they're gonna be the most rational person that they could find or that they knew at the time, right? The most responsible person. Right. Which those people tend to be um decision makers and they focus on here's the best course, here's the best monetary course, here's the shortest course of act, here's what we got to do. Um the rock could be that person, or it could be the emotional rock that kind of keeps the family together. And to be able to identify those people and say, okay, when I talk to this person, hey, here's the numbers, you go talk to the CPA or whatever, we'll make that work. And then you go talk to the next person, hey, I understand what you're going through. Here's some resources if they need, you know, a counselor or something like that. Um and then here's just me. I mean, I've literally hour-long phone calls with clients just because you know, you know, they're concerned about the same thing over and over. Um, but just to comfort them, right? So when you find that rock in the emotional state, then everybody else is comfortable.

Managing Emotions And Family Roles

SPEAKER_04 16:07

Right. I love that. And so we've talked a lot about education. I know that's super important to you, that's super important to us, which is why we're even having this conversation, right? Right. Education is what gets our people to do what is needed to sustain you know the quality of life and build their families up. So now I know you launched a video series.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

I did.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

You launched a video series. It's called Senior Living NTX. So talk to me a little bit about that and what are you trying to do with that? What has the response been like launching those series?

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Okay. So we we launched that originally because I uh I can only talk to so many people, right? Right. Um and I I was talking to my wife, my wife works with me, as y'all know. Um, she's my marketing person. She's like, we need to do video and we need to not just be me talking all the time. So I need to interview other people. We had a podcast there for a little bit, and then that kind of transformed into blog posts and podcasts and video series. So the the goal of senior living NTX is to educate people in North Texas on what their options are. So I go interview senior living communities and I do a video tour so that people can say, hey, this is like a hotel, it's not like a hospital. The people who are friendly, they're family. Um, but then I go interview like rideshare people, home health care, um, the technology that's available, everything that I can think of that a senior might benefit from, I try to interview those people to get it from them so that the senior or their adult children who maybe are on YouTube find it because everybody's got the same questions, right? We all don't know what we don't know exactly find it. Um so that they can find that they can then move forward say, hey, there are options so that way whenever they do talk to whether it's me or any other SRES agent, um, they are they're more they know what questions to ask. They're more educated to your point about the process. They now know what they didn't know before and they can make a more informed decision.

SPEAKER_04 17:53

Love that. And so with you going to these different communities and talking to these different agencies, what are some of the trends or standout features that you have seen across the board when you've spoken to them?

Education Through Senior Living NTX

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Um, so the the biggest thing that stands out to me and until I really started serving seniors uh five, six, seven years ago, like at a as a at a true real capacity as a goal, um, I didn't know what I didn't know. I started this partly because my grandmother had dementia and she had to go, you know, live at the skilled nursing uh community where it just wasn't that great, right? So I'm like, is this really all we have? So when I go look at communities today and I see they have Olympic swimming pools and they have full gyms, they have workout media rooms, movie theaters, um they just hair salons, they have everything there. It's almost like going to resort. And it's built like a higher end interior apartment complex, right? Or community where it feels almost like staying at a hotel. You know, they they do your they clean your your room for you, they do your laundry for you, there's on-site food and it's good, right? It's an actual chef that makes it. Um I've eaten there sometimes just when I'm in the community or out there, I'm like, hey, let's grab lunch. Um but the biggest one is probably the ones that really feel like a community, right? Where the people who work there, serve there, and love the residents, and it engages the senior to a point where the quality of life increases, right? Everybody thinks it's gonna be more restricted, it's gonna be more rules in this, but really it creates freedom. You don't have to worry about mowing the yard, doing the laundry, cleaning or you get to go play bridge, you get to go on the field trip, fellowship, yeah, fellowship, you get to do services, you get to do so much that's there for you. So that it's a whole different world. I could talk forever just about those things. But those are the big two the amenities and the culture.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

So, so what we do, our mission is to love our neighbors ourselves, treat people how you will want to be treated. Yeah. And you often say your mission is to love and serve. All right. What does this look what do that look like for you and for your team? Okay.

What Modern Communities Really Offer

SPEAKER_02 20:06

So love and serve, spoiler alert, it's just the gospel. That's all they mean. Yeah. Yeah. And we were working through I don't know if y'all are familiar with Simon Sinek or any of his stuff like start with why. He wrote stall with why find your why. So when I was working through that, um, that's where I came up with my encourage, enlighten, and empower others. Um and that it just it didn't, it was great, but I was like, there's something else, there's something else. And it just hit me one day, love and serve, right? Where if I go love and serve my agents, I go love and serve my employees, my company, they're gonna be way better equipped to go love and serve our clients. In love and so clients, they're gonna love and serve the community. What I love that so we do a lot in the community, we sponsor a lot of stuff, schools. Um, you kind of gotta you can say whatever you want to say, but if you don't actually go do it, do it right, right? It doesn't mean anything. So it is building a culture um at our workplace where you're not just an employee. Right. Right? You you know, you if somebody's maybe not hitting the numbers for a quarter or something like that, it's not, hey, get your numbers up, you're out. What's going on? So it's happening and office. You know, I know that you're this person and you do these things, so how can we how can we help get you back there?

SPEAKER_04 21:16

I love that. And uh that's everybody that we bring on is very we're selective. Yeah, very selective with whatever you bring on. And we're selective because we know our standard. Our standard is always faith, family, love, and service. That's what we stand on. And so when we have people who come on and they have we want them to have that same like-minded like-mindedness because when you do that, you impact so many more people when you are moving with love, when you're moving with service. So I love it.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

And when you're keeping those biblical principles and guidelines, man, from that you bring into your life, and then you zoom that through your team and your family.

SPEAKER_04 21:51

Yes, that's awesome. So I love that. See, it's we don't just be putting randoms up here, okay?

SPEAKER_02 21:56

This is serious business. Okay, it is divine appointments.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

I love that. I love that. So now, okay, back back direct on subject, okay, because you know, I can go on a tangent about that. Now, what advice would you give to an adult child who is trying to get their, you know, loved one to transition, or they are, as you would say, right sizing to where they need to be.

Leading With Love And Service

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Okay. Um, my number one piece of advice, and it's the one thing that people typically don't do, is start early. Right. As humans, uh, we are all about cure, not prevention. Right. Right. And and I understand that I I do the same thing. But the earlier you can start, the better. And whatever starting looks like to you, whether it's talking to an attorney, whether it's talking to a senior living community, whether it's talking to a real estate agent or broker or whoever, just start asking the questions. Go online, go to YouTube, start looking. Because what typically happens, uh, mom or dad, you you might notice they're forgetting some things. And we all say, Oh, that's just, you know, we just get older and we forget things. Yeah. And we don't look at that as maybe that's some cognitive decline. Right. Because we don't know, we're not a doctor. Um, and then what typically happens is mom or dad fall or get hurt. And now it is this emergency thing to make sure they're healthy and okay. Right. But then we'll mom or dad can't live in the house anymore. Right. Right. Well, by that point, there were probably signs along the way that we always ignored. Yeah, yeah. We ignored them. We didn't tend to perverse, you know, it just kind of well, some people do ignore it because I don't want to acknowledge the truth. Um, some people just aren't that involved. Some people don't want to deal with the emotions of it. Um, but anytime you see that stuff and have that conversation, right, with mom or dad, they they know they don't want to burn most of the time. Mom or dad don't want to burden their kid. Yeah. But their kids have lives that they're doing, right? Um, but the kids want to help, right? We want to, I I and I can say this because it started with my grandmother. Um, several of our agents have had parents and grandparents that have gone through dementia, Alzheimer's, things like that. And that's why we do kind of what we do with seniors and in probate, because we've all personally been through it. Uh, and we did the same thing. We ignored signs, we didn't want to deal with it. Now we're reacting, and there was no resource. So we're trying to be that resource and bring attention. Right. So at least when it happens, you know there's a YouTube channel or a five somewhere information.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

Yeah. You can look up SRES. You look up independent living. Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

And then any of those people can get you where you need to be. Wow. Okay. So tell me this before we go, I want you to let your listeners, the listeners know where they can find you. Okay. Where they can work watch NTX videos and give them your platform for all the income in.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

So the easiest place is Fritz Realty Group.com. Um we also have on YouTube Senior Living NTX is our YouTube channel where we're putting exclusively just the educational videos. Okay. Right? Blog posts and videos. Um Fritz Realty Group has their blog posts, and we're on all the major platforms. We're on TikTok, uh TikTok likes major. Uh Facebook's major. It's getting there. Well, it's it's up and down. Um but Facebook, Instagram, uh, TikTok, Twitter, it's all Fritz Realty Group on all the platforms.

Start Early: Guidance For Adult Children

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Okay, uh back to the last question you about decision making and planning, right? Uh for that 18 to 25 year old, that 25 to 35 year old, what'll be your best advice for them?

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Um, to know that you've got a long life and a lot of stuff's gonna happen. Um, and to just try to understand you don't know what you don't know, you don't know everything. Um, and here we're gonna get off topic a little, but I guess it's real estate. Um you have to get in the game, yeah, right? A lot of times people think, oh, I'm buying a house when I'm an adult. When this happens, I don't feel like an adult. I'm 47, I still don't feel like an adult sometimes. You know, I'm just like, well, yeah, I'm doing all this. Yeah, so anyway, uh get in the game, go educate yourself on it because it's gonna be your parents, it's gonna be you one day, right? But it's gonna be your parents, it's gonna be your grandparents, aunts, uncles. Um, and here's a personal show that hits kind of close to home for me. Um we think it's so far away, and I just said parents, grandparents, all that. Um my wife's sister was in a car accident almost two years ago now. Wrong way driver, she was 40 years old, she just turned 40, two kids. Wrong way driver hits her. Now she's disabled, she's blind, memory loss, things like that. Where I didn't think a 40-year-old, she had a will, because that's what I knew. Right, but not like directives, not powers of attorney. So when she was in the coma, she can't do anything. Right. Because you know, she's not deceased, the will doesn't take effect. So that opened my eyes, like, man, even at 20 and 30 years old, you you don't know what would happen tomorrow. And we hear that, I heard that a million times. Yeah. Um, but we don't know what can happen tomorrow. So have those things in order. So to you to your original question, I'm sorry, I'm long-winded.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

No, you're fine, you're fine.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Know that um we just don't know what we don't know. So educate yourself. Um and number two, start planning. You know, if it's even if you don't people think, well, I don't own anything, I don't need a will. I promise you, I've seen people fight over a lighter, right? So what happens to that, especially when you get kids, have the durable power of attorney, medical power of attorney, so that people can make decisions for you. Right. You know, you just you never know. And in that accident, there were four people that were involved that were all in that same situation.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

So thank you for sharing for sharing. I appreciate that. Um, because again, we everybody just thinks, you know, we're gonna get up the next day and we have all the time in the world, and we don't know what's gonna happen when we walk outside those doors. So I appreciate you sharing that and giving that wisdom to our audience because it's absolutely needed. Right. Uh, and just thank you for being here. We appreciate you. We're honored.

Estate Planning For Every Age

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Well, thank you. I appreciate you. Thank you for having me, and thank y'all for doing this. I mean, it's a wonderful thing with with a good um God-honoring spirit to it that is gonna help a lot of people, and I think it's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 28:03

Appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Thank you. Hi, I'm Paul Fritz, broker owner of Fritz Realty Group. We specialize in divorce, probate, and seniors real estate. If you or a loved one are going through any of those life transitions, we'd love to help you out and be a resource for you. You can find us at Fritz Realty Group.com on all the major social media platforms at Fritz Realty Group or reach out directly at broker at FritzRealtygroup.com.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

And with that, you guys, we are out. We hope you enjoyed this episode of the Journey Out Podcast. Please be sure to like, share, subscribe, and just make sure you get it out to all your friends who could definitely use this information because, like we said, you have to prepare now. So we will see you on the next episode. You guys be blessed, and we're out.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

We're out. Peace.